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Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac From Early Times to the Present, Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc.

120 BUSINESS HISTORY OF FOND DU LAC
Forgot His Wife at Oshkosh.
During one of the winters of many years ago, a musical conven¬ tion was held at Oshkosh, and many Fond du Lac people attended. Among the musical notables was Emerson Hawley, who assisted in conducting the convention. When ready to return home, two large sleighs and one cutter carried the party. They came over on the ice, and as they neared the mouth of the river, Mr. Hawley discovered that he had forgotten something—his wife. She was in that city and alone, so the only thing to be done was to go back after her, so the cutter was headed north and the balance of the party came on home. Annoying as the forced return was to Mr. Hawley, the annoyance by his friends for months about forgetting his wife, was much more so. It was a long time before he heard the last of it.
Council Wants Circus Tickets.
In 1858 the common council of Fond du Lac passed a resolution that in future all circuses must pay a license and furnish tickets for members of the council and city officers. When Yankee Robinson's show came there was a kick and the show put up its tent on Rahte's farm, south of the city and just outside the city limits. An old wagon and a pair of sorry looking horses now appeared on the streets with fife and drum and a large man with tremendous voice, declaring readiness to pay the license but stopped at the tickets. Between each of the announcements came rattling of the fife and drum that would scare an Indian out of town. The scene provoked much laughter and for ridicule it was a great success and no more was ever heard about circus tickets. In after years it delighted Jo. Serwe to tell of the affair.
An Albino Barber.
M. Wagner & Son now have a fine dry goods store at the north¬ west corner of Main and West Second streets, but there was a time that a small wood building stood on that ground and Horace Durand had a harness shop in it. In the rear for a long time stood the old building known as the Exchange Hotel, now a part of the Lewis House. For a long time one of the occupants of the old Exchange, was a full Albino, pink eyes, florid complexion and light hair, named Mitchell, who carried on a barber shop there. His wife was a negro of considerable ability and drew many a customer to the shop by story telling. Her use of the language was fine, but her husband was remarkable for the use of big words. He constantly kept in use the most remarkable words in the dictionary, without reference to meaning or place. He would work in several big words in succession and to the extent that his talk was unintelligible. The longer the word or the more infrequent in use, the better for him. His talk was laughable for the intelligent and perplexing for the ignorant. He was most remarkable and his peculiarity besides his wife's story tell¬ ing, brought him customers.

Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac From Early Times to the Present, Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc.

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Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac From Early Times to the Present, Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc.

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Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac From Early Times to the Present, Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc.

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Glaze, A. T.

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This 1905 history of the city of Fond du Lac and Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, discusses business and industry, the legal and medical professions, military history, elections, and pioneers and prominent citizens of the county.

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Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin

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P.B. Haber Printing Company

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1905

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English

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac From Early Times to the Present, Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc.

Author

Glaze, A. T.

Publication Date (Original)

1905

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Publisher-Electronic

Wisconsin Historical Society

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We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org.

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120 BUSINESS HISTORY OF FOND DU LAC
Forgot His Wife at Oshkosh.
During one of the winters of many years ago, a musical conven¬ tion was held at Oshkosh, and many Fond du Lac people attended. Among the musical notables was Emerson Hawley, who assisted in conducting the convention. When ready to return home, two large sleighs and one cutter carried the party. They came over on the ice, and as they neared the mouth of the river, Mr. Hawley discovered that he had forgotten something—his wife. She was in that city and alone, so the only thing to be done was to go back after her, so the cutter was headed north and the balance of the party came on home. Annoying as the forced return was to Mr. Hawley, the annoyance by his friends for months about forgetting his wife, was much more so. It was a long time before he heard the last of it.
Council Wants Circus Tickets.
In 1858 the common council of Fond du Lac passed a resolution that in future all circuses must pay a license and furnish tickets for members of the council and city officers. When Yankee Robinson's show came there was a kick and the show put up its tent on Rahte's farm, south of the city and just outside the city limits. An old wagon and a pair of sorry looking horses now appeared on the streets with fife and drum and a large man with tremendous voice, declaring readiness to pay the license but stopped at the tickets. Between each of the announcements came rattling of the fife and drum that would scare an Indian out of town. The scene provoked much laughter and for ridicule it was a great success and no more was ever heard about circus tickets. In after years it delighted Jo. Serwe to tell of the affair.
An Albino Barber.
M. Wagner & Son now have a fine dry goods store at the north¬ west corner of Main and West Second streets, but there was a time that a small wood building stood on that ground and Horace Durand had a harness shop in it. In the rear for a long time stood the old building known as the Exchange Hotel, now a part of the Lewis House. For a long time one of the occupants of the old Exchange, was a full Albino, pink eyes, florid complexion and light hair, named Mitchell, who carried on a barber shop there. His wife was a negro of considerable ability and drew many a customer to the shop by story telling. Her use of the language was fine, but her husband was remarkable for the use of big words. He constantly kept in use the most remarkable words in the dictionary, without reference to meaning or place. He would work in several big words in succession and to the extent that his talk was unintelligible. The longer the word or the more infrequent in use, the better for him. His talk was laughable for the intelligent and perplexing for the ignorant. He was most remarkable and his peculiarity besides his wife's story tell¬ ing, brought him customers.